Measuring-machine for rolled material.



G. H. KING. MEASURING MACHINE FOR ROLLED MATERIAL. APPLICATION FILED JULY 7, 1910.

1,040,351 Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. KING, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO KING MEASURING DEVICE COMPANY, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA.

MEASURING-MACHINE FOR ROLLED MATERIAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

Application filed July 7, 1910. Serial No. 570,866.

i will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

vThis invention relates to improvements in measuring machines for rolled material and more particularly to such as is adapted for use in handling and measuring heavy Wire netting such as employed around poultry yards,the object of the invention being to provide a machine of the character described by means of which a bolt of heavy 'wire netting can be readily handled; accurately measured, and so that the measured netting after having been reeled, can be easily removed.

WVith these ends 1n view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of part-s as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views,

1 represents a framework, at one end of which a curved series of rollers 2 are mounted and form a cradle for supporting a supply roll or bolt of wire netting. A roller 3 is located in front of the space occupied by the roll or bolt of wire and slightly below the axis of the latter and above and spaced from the roller "3'is another roller 4 having its journals supported in open bearings 5,said rollers 3 and 4 forming, in

effect, an extension or continuation of theby the provision of the upper roller el, the netting will be prevented from springing out of the cradle and bunehing when the bolt shall have been nearly unwound.

The frame 1 is provided at its rear end with arms 6 connected by a bar 7 and attached at its ends to said arms is a rod 8. A disk 9 is provided with an arm 10 having an opening 11 for the passage of the rod 8 and this arm 10 is made with an extension 12 to be disposed parallel with the bar 7. The purpose of the disk 9 is to engage one end of the bolt of netting and prevel'lt longitudinal movement of the same, movement of the disk 9 at such time being prevented by engagement of the arm 10 with a the rod 11 and the extension 12 of said arm with the bar 7. The bar 7 may be provided with graduations, as shown in Fig. 3, to indicate the width of the wire on the bolt. It is apparent that the disk 9 can be raised as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 (the loose connection of the arm 10 of said disk with the rod 8 permitting the turning of the disk) and that when the disk is thus raised it can be adjusted in accordance with the width of the netting on the bolt being manipulated.

In advance of the cradle, rollers 13 and 14 are mounted and a ournal of the roller 141: is provided (outside of the frame 1) with a pulley 15. A similar pulley 16 is mounted on a stub-shaft 17 projecting from one side of the frame 1 and over the pulleys 15 and 16, a belt 18 passes. This belt carries a pin or projection 19 for operating a register 20 located on the framework 1. In advance of the roller 14, a frame 21 is hinged, as at 22, to the main frame 1 and projects over that part of the main frame in which the rollers 13 and 14 are mounted. The hinged frame 21 is provided wit-h adjustable boxes 23 for the reception of the journals of a roller 24, the latterbeing disposed intermediate of the rollers 1314 and having its axis in a plane above the plane of said rollers 13 and 14. The rollers 13 and 14 constitute measuring rollers, the wire netting passing over the rollers 13 and 14 and being pressed in contact with the latter by the intermediate roller 24c,said rollers having such dimensions that a specified amount of netting (say one yard) will move forwardly during the complete length of travel of the pin 19 on the endless belt 18 and thus the netting passing through the machine will be measured.

At the 'forward'e'nd of the mach'ine'and in a plane appreciably below that of the axis of the bolt of wire netting, a reeling device is located and between this reeling device and the measuring roll, a guide roller 26 is mounted in the frame 1 in a plane above that of the reeling device. The reeling device 25 comprises a bar or shaft 27 Fig. 4 having journals 28-29 mounted in the frame 1 and the journal 29 is provided out-' side of said frame, with an operating crank 30 and with a ratchet wheel 31, the latter to be engaged by a dog 32 to prevent retrograde rotation of the reeling device. The bar or shaft 27 is provided, near one end, with a recess 33 and over this recess a slotted plate 34 is secured, the slot in said plate being made larger at one end than the other and permitting the passage of a headed pin 35 depending from a bail 36. Pivotally attached at one end to the bail 36 and spaced apart, are two bars 37 and 38, the other ends of said bars being adapted to enter a bail 39 pivoted to the bar or shaft 27 and the bail 39 carries a roller 40 disposed between the free ends of the bars 37 and 38 and said bail 39 also carries a clamping or set screw 41 to engage the bar 37 near the free end of the latter andabove the roller 40. The free edge or end of the wire netting is inserted between the bars 37 and 38 and caused to project slightly beyond the same. If the reeling device be now turned by means of the crank 30, the netting will be reeled thereon and pulled through the machine, causing the. measuring device to operate and register the amount of netting reeled. In reeling very heavy material, such as wire netting used for poultry yards, the netting will become very tightly bound upon the reeler and therefore difficult to remove therefrom, but with the construction of the reeling device shown in Fig. 4, said reeling device is made collapsible to permit the easy removal of the reeled netting therefrom. Thus when the netting shall have been reeled upon the reeler 25, the operator will loosen the hinged bail 39 and swing it down so as to release the bars 37-38, at the same time moving the roller 40 with the bail from between said bars and'allowing the free end of the bar 37 to approach the free end of'thebar 38. The

bars 3738 may now be moved longitudinally by moving the bail 36 and the reeled netting can be readily removed from the collapsed reel. A guide 42 is supported by arms 43 hinged to the hinged frame 21 and normally retained in the positions shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2, by means of a button 44. When the netting has been measured and it is desired to sever the reeled portion from the bulk, the guide 42 will be swung and caused to assume the posit-ion shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 so that it will rest upon the netting between the roller 26 and the reeler and constitute a guide for the shears employed in severing the netting.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is,-

1. In a measuring machine, the combination with a frame, a cradle supported thereby for receiving a bolt of material, a winding reel, measuring means bet-ween the cradle and winding reel, and a guide roller between the measuring means and the wind 1.,

ing reel, of arms hinged above said guide roller, a guide secured to'and connecting said arms, said arms having sufficient length to dispose said guide on the material between the guide roller and winding reel andi spaced from both, and means for normally retaining said arms and gulde elevated.

2. In a measuring machine, the combination with .a frame, a cradle supported thereby, a graduated bar at one end of the frame and means for withdrawing material from a roll in said cradle, of a rod mounted in the specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE n. KING.

Witnesses:

LENA L. LAWRENCE. FRANK H. SOHLATER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

